Merchantman

(n.) A merchant.

(n.) A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.

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• This is of prime importance, as permitting quick submergence or emergence, either to escape from a high-speed destroyer or to capture a merchantman. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The writer had been one of the crew, and the letter was to his son, who was, at the very time the letter was written, master of a Spanish merchantman. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I left Lisbon the 24th day of November, in an English merchantman, but who was the master I never inquired. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• There were a few lighters and barges, but none of the great merchantmen such as ply the upper air between the cities of the outer world. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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